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Even in adversity these communities survive on their own terms. Nguyen Chi Thien and John Brown speak from prison and the world
listens. Chiura Obata, art professor at UC Berkeley, creates from race-based internment in 1942. Josiah Henson--the real "Uncle Tom"
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Even in adversity these communities survive on their own terms. Nguyen Chi Thien and John Brown speak from prison and the world
listens. Chiura Obata, art professor at UC Berkeley, creates from race-based internment in 1942. Josiah Henson--the real "Uncle Tom"
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Asian Writers on Their Work
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| Nguyen Chi Thien is a dissident Vietnamese poet who spent twenty-seven years in Communist prison camps between 1961 and 1991. While briefly released in 1979 he dashed into the British Embassy in Hanoi with his manuscript Hoa Dia Nguc -- Flowers from Hell -- under his shirt. They were written from his memory because he was not allowed paper or pen in prison. Arrested again outside the gate, he was dragged to the Central Prison ("Hanoi Hilton" as U.S. pilots called it) and endured twelve more years, most in solitary darkness. The British diplomats honored his request to release his poetry into the Free World. In 1985--without knowing whether the poet was living or dead--Nguyen Chi Thien received the International Poetry Prize. Translated by Huynh Sanh Thong of Yale University, "Flowers from Hell" was the first volume in the Council on Southeast Asia Studies Lac Viet Series. Today he is a U.S. citizen and writes and lectures to seek a free Vietnam. His autobiography, in English, is in Beyond Words (left) |
| A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Loren Katz. First edtion published in 1971; now revised (2005). Published by Harlem Moon (Random House) Chapters include Buffalo Soldiers, Black Women, California, and two new chapters on John Brown. $16 |
| From Midnight to Dawn is the journey of enslaved African Americans from slavery in the United States to freedom in Canada in the 1850s. "Midnight" was the code for Detroit. "Dawn" was the settlement of fugitives who reached Canada and lived free in the decades before the Civil War. Colorado author Jacqueline L. Tobin ("Hidden in Plain View" and "The Tao of Women") is a teacher and collector and writer of women's stories. Meet Mary Ann Shadd, William Parker (the Christiana, Pennsylvania, resistance), Harriet Tubman and John Brown, who sought to liberate the entire enslaved U.S. population. $20 |
| The Emancipation Day celebrations Frederick Douglass called it of African Americans in Loudoun "The Perfect Steel Trap" and County Virginia 1890-1971 demon- warned John Brown. What strate race pride and civic activism. happened in prison in Virginia Black History Committee of Thomas told the world the immorality Balch Library Friends comes with of slavery. Historical fiction map of community sites. $25 brings details alive. $23 |
| communities in 1942 to the stark communities in 1942 to the stark barracks of internment camps. barracks of internment camps. Chiura Obata, who immigrated to the United States in 1902, was a well-respected artist and professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley. While interned he continued his landscape expression and began art training for other prisoners. Professor Obata's work may be seen on the website of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, permanent collection. |
| Topaz Moon was edited by Kimi Kodani Hill, the grand-daughter of the artist, and published by Heyday Books of Berkeley in 2000. $22.50 ONE LEFT IN STOCK -- NOW BEING REPRINTED BY HEYDAY |
| AS IS brings together bright new voices from across the San Francisco Bay Area. The photography, painting, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in this anthology showcase the 1.5 generation of Vietnamese Americans. The Vietnamese Artists Collective features some of the the freshest and hottest talents to come from one of the youngest ethnic communities in the country. $17.95 |
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how saigon is saigon?
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saigon? 2001 $12
is it littler than saigon,
or littler than little?
how saigon is saigon?
is it more saigon than little saigon,
or is little saigon a little more
saigon? 2001 $12
green plums
collected
poems in
English and
Vietnamese
1985-2005
joseph dovinh tai
collected
poems in
English and
Vietnamese
1985-2005
joseph dovinh tai
Borderlands -- the spaces between traditional
cultures
Borderlands Communities immigrants, refugees,
prisoners -- sojourners
and exiles -- defining
and seeking new
creative worlds.
cultures
Borderlands Communities immigrants, refugees,
prisoners -- sojourners
and exiles -- defining
and seeking new
creative worlds.
“Writers on writing aim for the heart” by Mark Panek. Review of Beyond
Words, Asian Writers on their Work in The Daily Yomiuri Online,
December 23, 2006:
“When writers get it right, the particular becomes the familiar, and
suddenly we find ourselves, say, locked in a dark prison cell somewhere
in Vietnam secretly composing an anthology of poems in our heads along
with the political prisoner- poet Nguyen Chi Thien.”
Words, Asian Writers on their Work in The Daily Yomiuri Online,
December 23, 2006:
“When writers get it right, the particular becomes the familiar, and
suddenly we find ourselves, say, locked in a dark prison cell somewhere
in Vietnam secretly composing an anthology of poems in our heads along
with the political prisoner- poet Nguyen Chi Thien.”
California's New Culture in
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views $9
Under the Dragon
